The imperial makings of a local/national currency in colonial Zimbabwe: Money as a product of imperial and colonial politics and law; 1930-1940
Tinashe Nyamunda
The Brookings Institute’s Economics Professor Steve Hanke has argued that the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has...
HARARE –Annual inflation rose in May, albeit at a much slower pace due to due to reduced economic activity and aggregate demand during the coronavirus-induced lockdown. According to Zimstat, annual inflation for May rose by 19.98 percentage points to...
HARARE (FinX) – President Mnangagwa has further relaxed the coronavirus-induced national lockdown as he sought to re-activate what he termed ‘freedoms promised’ at the outset of the ‘new dispensation.’
In an address, which contained reminders of perhaps the difficult task,...
Joseph Mverecha
Introduction
Our times are uniquely difficult and have been for a while, with limited respite. The economy is dollarizing rapidly while the local currency is careering listlessly towards the edge of the universe – as happened in 2008. Ahead...
LUSAKA, ZAMBIA – While a lot of hard lessons have been learned from the COVID-19 outbreak, few have been as resounding as the need to hedge against unforeseen calamities.
The outbreak brought several sectors and, in some cases, entire economies to...
Staff Writer
The Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company has reduced domestic tariff structure by up to 36 percent with the introduction an additional band.
Previously, there was a three-price band for ZEDTC supplied electricity to domestic metered customers. ivermectin in...
Tapiwanashe Mangwiro
HARARE – NMB Zimbabwe says that its loan book does not have significant exposure to business sectors that are most affected by the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent lockdown.
NMB chief executive Benefit Washaya told FinX that loan book exposure...
Jonathan Waters
Tomorrow, June 11, marks the centenary of the arrival of the first aircraft in Harare carrying two passengers from Kadoma, and it is perhaps an irony that today may pass – as it did 100 years ago...
The end of Chartered Rule, entrenchment of white self-government and African economic disempowerment: Currencies, and the consolidation of Racialised Economic Spaces, 1920-1930
Tinashe Nyamunda
In the previous article, I examined the currency crisis that slowed down the consolidation of white economic...
HARARE – A slowdown in economic activity in April due to the coronavirus-induced national lockdown, saw the country’s trade deficit narrow by a significant 82.87% to $24.2 mln. According to the latest statistics from Zimstat, cumulatively the trade deficit...
